Some of the Saga writers seem to have reworked their mythological material into full allegories.
Germanic mythology combines purely mythological material with historical events of this period.
In some of them he took a strong critical line with mythological and counterfeit material current as fact in the early modern period.
The mythological material was specially affected by this process; hence three main problems confront us in studying the mythology of the Old Testament.
The myths collected in the first eleven chapters of Genesis do not, however, exhaust the mythological material contained in Hebrew literature.
Hamel takes the view that it was the Hebrew author who was reacting to and adapting this mythological material to communicate his own, quite different message.
Books II-V cover a wide range, and because of their inclusion of much mythological material are of much less value.
Indeed, the features of the episode are unique; it is an epyllion that engages mythological material.
Roy's plays reflected current issues, although he made use of mythological and historical materials.
Some sections of the Chu songs consist of especially dense mythological material, such as the "Heavenly Questions".